This is an analysis of the poem The Netherlands (Fragment) that begins with:

Water and windmills, greenness, Islets green;--
Willows whose Trunks beside the shadows stood... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110101 1111010111 01110111001 1101110100111 011001 1011010111 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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